Tyler Ferguson, associate at Krieg DeVault LLP, participated in the mock negotiation panel at the TMA Global’s NextGen Leadership Conference in New York City in November.

Fort Dearborn Partners is pleased to announce that Mary Warmus has joined the firm as partner in charge of their valuation practice. Warmus is a CPA and ASA with a concentration in business valuation. She has over 25 years of experience valuing closely held businesses and intellectual property for tax, mergers and acquisitions, business strategy, ESOP formation and business litigation purposes. Warmus has served as an expert witness in both federal and state court.

David Johnson of ACM Partners published an article “Taking a Nonprofit Organization Back to Financial Health,” outlining lessons learned from a recent successful turnaround.

Jonathan Friedland and Lisa Vandesteeg have joined Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer LLP’s growing corporate restructuring and creditor’s rights practice as partners. Friedland came to prominence in recent years as one of the country’s leading experts regarding out-of-court financial restructurings.  His seminal work, Strategic Alternatives For and Against Distressed Businesses, is widely considered to be the leading treatise on the subject. Vandesteeg, recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyer since 2011, concentrates her practice in the areas of bankruptcy, commercial litigation and data security. She is a lead author of the popular treatise, Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation.

Carl Lane, managing director of Willow Tree Consulting Group, was recently engaged as Chief Restructuring Officer of The Budd Company and was also awarded the CTP designation by the TMA.

KPMG LLP announced that Kevin A. Krakora, CTP, joined as a principal to lead the U.S. Restructuring practice. Previously, Krakora was a senior managing director at Mesirow Financial Consulting following its acquisition of KPMG’s Corporate Recovery practice in 2004. Also joining Krakora in KPMG’s Restructuring practice from Mesirow are Jonathan Weinberg, director in KPMG Corporate Finance, and Michael McCoy, senior associate.

Navin Nagrani of Hilco Global recently participated in a keynote address for the Restaurant Finance And Development Conference. Nagrani delivered a “TED” style talk on “Distressed Investment Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.”

Kat Parker, HYPERAMS LLC, served on the planning committee for the NextGen Leadership Conference that was held in New York City November 7-9.

Harley J. Goldstein was named "Corporate Insolvency Lawyer of the Year - USA” by Wealth & Finance International Magazine’s 2015 Finance Awards, has been named general counsel of the Commercial Finance Association’s Midwest Chapter (following his term as president of that chapter), and was quoted in a number of television and print stories concerning Goldstein & McClintock LLLP’s clients such as the Wrigleyville Hotel bankruptcy cases.

Thomas Fawkes and Harold Israel presented on “Fraud Protections” to the NACM Healthcare Trade Exchange Group in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Thomas Fawkes was named an Emerging Lawyer in Illinois by Leading Lawyers Network and presented on “Fraud Protections” to the National Garage Door & Operating Devices Industry Group in Chicago; “Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy” to the NACM Midwest Industry Benchmarking Group in Wausau, WI;  “Electronic Contracts and Documentation” at the NACM Connect Annual Conference in Rolling Meadows, IL; “Social Media for the Credit Professional” to the NACM Consumer Products Industry Group in Chicago; “My Customer Filed Bankruptcy:  Now What?” at the NACM Connect Annual Conference in St. Louis, MO; and on “Litigation 101 for Credit Professionals” at the NACM Upstate New York Annual Conference in Syracuse, NY.

Tim Serritella joins HYPERAMS, LLC as a director of business development. Serritella will be responsible for developing relations in all of the firm's verticals with a particular concentration on the appraisal discipline, as well as adding services in sourcing term and bridge loans.

Suzanne Koenig of SAK Management Services LLC participated on a panel titled, “The Causes, Cures, and Killers of Health Care Cases” at the 2015 Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar in August.  Koenig also moderated “ Hot Topics in Healthcare: Game Show Style!” at the 2015 TMA Annual Conference held in October in Scottsdale, AZ.  Lastly, Koenig was recently elected to the  Global Turnaround Management Associations Board of Trustees.

SAK Management Services, LLC, Goldstein & McClintock, LLP and People’s Choice Hospital were pleased to accept an award at the 7th Annual Turnaround Atlas Awards at the Field Museum in Chicago, for the Corporate Turnaround of the year Small Markets, for Cochise Regional Hospital Restructuring.

Lake Forest Calif., Summit Healthcare REIT, Inc. (“Summit”) announced  that Suzanne Koenig has joined the Summit Board of Directors effective October 28, 2015, pursuant to an election held at the annual meeting of stockholders.